Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought you couldn't think of. He explains the insights of the ...(展开全部)

Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought you couldn't think of. He explains the insights of the ...(展开全部)

Ian Stewart 英国著名数学教育家，一直致力于推动数学知识走通俗易懂的道路。他在科学普及方面做出了巨大贡献，被授予英国皇家学会法拉第奖章，并于2001年加入了该 学会。他编著的科学书籍深受广大读者喜爱，包括《上帝掷骰子吗？》、《更平坦之地》、《给青年数学家的信》、《如何切蛋糕》、《数学万花筒：五光十色的数 学趣题和逸事》以及与特里•普拉切特合著的《碟形世界之科学》。目前任《新科学》期刊的数学顾问及华威大学数学系教授。

Ian Stewart 英国著名数学教育家，一直致力于推动数学知识走通俗易懂的道路。他在科学普及方面做出了巨大贡献，被授予英国皇家学会法拉第奖章，并于2001年加入了该 学会。他编著的科学书籍深受广大读者喜爱，包括《上帝掷骰子吗？》、《更平坦之地》、《给青年数学家的信》、《如何切蛋糕》、《数学万花筒：五光十色的数 学趣题和逸事》以及与特里•普拉切特合著的《碟形世界之科学》。目前任《新科学》期刊的数学顾问及华威大学数学系教授。

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles’ proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother’s mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys’ school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls’ school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative head...(展开全部)

Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence ...(展开全部)

Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence ...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)